Here’s the headline: “‘Rudy Defeat Marks End of 9/11 Politics’ — Rudy Giuliani’s distant third-place finish in Florida may put an end to his bid for president, and it seems also to mark the beginning of the end of a period in Republican politics that began on Sept. 11, 2001. Giuliani’s national celebrity was based […]

One of the reasons why the conservative vote is split is not because the Reagan coalition has gone away. You have basically three legs of the conservative stool. There’s subsets of this, but you’ve got the economic, the fiscal; you’ve got the social; and you got the foreign policy conservatives. Among these foreign policy conservatives […]

Get this. It’s unbelievable… especially from the Associated Press. “Luxury Squeeze — It’s hard to feel sorry for well-heeled shoppers whose idea of tough economic times is passing on $1,000 Burberry raincoats or that $300 limo ride while the working poor skimp on vegetables and take the bus. But economists say that recent signs of […]

Mrs. Clinton… She was inevitable until she actually ran. Everybody is so caught up in the Uncivil War and the entertainment factor here of Bill Clinton claiming that Obama interjected race and is putting hit jobs on him. But have you noticed what’s had to happen here? I think one of the best ways to […]

Reuters has run their annual news story about the hardship some Americans will face heating their homes this winter. In this year’s installment, a 61-year-old Massachusetts woman laments how her winter will be spent huddled around her gas oven — with her husband and 88-year-old mother — because she cannot afford heating oil. Now, only […]